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Do you let students text after they have finished their work?
Do you text in the classroom when sitting down?
When teaching in the computer lab, do you allow students to go on the internet after they've finished their assignments, or stream audio through headphones while they work?
I graduated from high school in 2005, so texting was not that popular, and cell phones were forbidden from coming out, but the teachers in "computer lab" courses like desktop publishing, web page design, etc. allowed surfing the internet after assignments were completed, as well as listening to music through headphones. I think I personally started the Launch.com "video" listening trend, which began to cripple our school's bandwidth once people caught wind of what I was doing.
Me, not so much.
The school policy is another story.
The best I do now is to make sure I don't see porn on the laptop screens
The higher ups seem to think 13 year olds are responsible and will utilize the laptops for education.
I teach students with developmental disabilities. My students largely do not have technology on them that isn't an adaptive/augmentative communication device (i.e. an iPad loaded with programs to "speak" for nonverbal kids). They don't bring phones to class. When we go into the community to practice independent living skills, we may use phones, because my students need to be solid on using such things properly for their own personal safety.
This is an appropriate use of technology in education. Other stuff? Eh.
I try not to tolerate it but it gets hard to teach 32 students while policing who's doing what with their hands under their desks. Even when I do think someone is texting, they have the cell phone put away by the time I get to where I can see what they're doing so I lose the game and the kids know it. I, probably, average actually seeing the phone about 1/20th of the time. Kids know the odds. They know that odds are that I either won't notice or they'll be able to put the phone away before I can confirm they were texting (I have to actually see the phone to take it. I can't just think they're texting.)
I would love to take the attitude that if you do not want to pay attention in my class you have earned the right to fail but parents and administrators won't allow that.
Me, not so much.
The school policy is another story.
The best I do now is to make sure I don't see porn on the laptop screens
The higher ups seem to think 13 year olds are responsible and will utilize the laptops for education.
Don't you wonder what those higher ups are smoking some days???
Between texting, YouTube, and Facebook (our district is on FB), it is almost impossible to teach. Students, not teachers, are given the wifi code, and students are permitted to listen to music. Our school has decided to pretty much do away with discipline and has started a demerit system that students think is a joke. The inmates are running the asylum. With all of that and the lowest grade that a student can get is a 60, even if they do absolutely nothing, I have decided to retire. I am hoping that I can make it until June, but there is no guarantee that I will make it until then.
I have some wonderful students who take their education very seriously, but unfortunately they are not the majority. I have several seniors who have told me that they want to teach. They can see what is going on in classrooms today and I hope that either they can make it work for them or they find another career.
How permissive are you in this regard? I try to be strict but sometimes students sneak things past me.
Do you let students text after they have finished their work? Absolutely not, it is against school policy.
Do you text in the classroom when sitting down? Absolutely not, it is against school policy for sub. teachers to use cell phones in front of students.
When teaching in the computer lab, do you allow students to go on the internet after they've finished their assignments, or stream audio through headphones while they work? Students can listen to music and frequently try to go to U-tube or other places on the web but when I walk around the room they always switch back to what they are supposed to be doing.
I graduated from high school in 2005, so texting was not that popular, and cell phones were forbidden from coming out, but the teachers in "computer lab" courses like desktop publishing, web page design, etc. allowed surfing the internet after assignments were completed, as well as listening to music through headphones. I think I personally started the Launch.com "video" listening trend, which began to cripple our school's bandwidth once people caught wind of what I was doing.
I'm a substitute teacher. My responses are in blue.
BTW The two districts where I sub teach do not even let the sub teachers log on to school computers in the classrooms or computer labs during our lunches or prep times. If I need to do some writing (ie. typing) or research I sometimes bring my lap top from home and use the schools wireless internet during my break times.
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